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The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family by Sir Herbert Mackworth, Dorset, Johnson, and Wilkinson : and the bills of Messers. Montagu, Ashe, Humphreys, and Gaby, by Messrs. John, George, and John Whitehead. No business transacted at the banks before ten nor after three. The history of the Bank is unclear, but the deed of co-partnership between James Montagu and Mssrs Ashe, Humphreys and Davy was only signed in 1792 343 so the British Directory was very perceptive!. A little should be said about Montagu’s partners; Robert Ashe was the Lord of the Manor and Rector of Langley Burrell and was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1788 344 , his quietus record, and the order to hand over the Shrievalty to his successor, are still extant 345 . He was Francis Kilvert’s great great grandfather 346 . Matthew Humphreys was a Chippenham clothier who bought The Ivy in 1791 from John Northey. The Georgian culvert found during a 2009 excavation, at Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre, was possibly associated with one of the outbuildings “constructed by Matthew 343 W&SHC 568/20 344 Jackson, Rev JE (1857) The Sheriffs of Wiltshire” WAM III p231 Reported in The New Annual Register vol 13 p48 Promotions 345 W&SHC 118/157 346 Plomer, W (1939 ) Excerpts from the Diary of the REV Francis Kilvert Vol II 1871-1874 pp202-203 Monday 25 November 1872 “The old manor house at Langley Burell used to stand on a knoll just beyond the fishpond below the terrace walk, where the oak stands now. The new Manor House was built about 100 years ago by Robert Ashe, Rector of the Parish and Lord of the Manor, my great-great-grandfather. The stones for the new house were hewn by an olde man named Old Chit Chat. When he got his pay he would go down the ancient footpath by Pen Hills House tossing a coin with himself to see whether his belly or his back should get the benefit of his wages. If the back won the toss Old Chit Chat would toss again to give the poor belly one last chance. The game generally ended up by his going to the public house” 86
The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family Humphries when he had his dyeing and weaving works on the site from 1770 onwards.” 347 . He was High Sherriff of Wiltshire in 1792 348 and died in November 1810, it being noted in The Monthly Magazine 349 Ralph Hale Gaby was a solicitor 350 and appears to have been partner in a “corn and flower mill” in Chippenham with Mr. Dowling. They suffered losses during the food riots of 1816 – in a letter to her adopted son 351 the lady of letters Hester Lynch Piozzi said “would it not provoke one to hear of Two Thousand Sacks of fine Wheat flour burned last week at Chippenham 352 ” The gloss to this letter notes that Having received “an incendiary letter” threatening arson “unless the price of flower was lowered” messrs Dowling and Gaby, proprietors of a corn and flour mill at Chippenham, sustained losses in excess of £10,000 when their mill burned down at 3 a.m. on 2 December “The immediate consequence of this is, that on our next market wheat will …… rise considerably” 353 347 Talk of the Town Autumn 2009 Chippenham Town Council “News from Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre” p1 348 Jackson, Rev JE (1857) The Sheriffs of Wiltshire” WAM III p231 349 The Monthly Magazine or British Register vol XXX pt II Dec 1810 p482 “At Ivy House, near Chippenham, Matthew Humphreys esq 76” 350 Universal British Register 1791 351 John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of her late husband. 352 Piozzi, HL & Loom EA & Bloom LD (eds) (1999) Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi” vol 5 1811-1816 p532. Letter dated 6 th December 1816 from Bath. 353 Piozzi, HL & Loom EA & Bloom LD (eds) (1999) ibid p533 fn1 87
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